Posted AT 8:13 PM EST on 09/01/09
Cheer up: Canada's in good shape
MONTREAL — The worst economic crisis of a lifetime? Maybe if you were born in 1992.
Job numbers out Friday – showing a jump in the national unemployment rate to 6.6 per cent – confirm that Canada has followed the United States into a recession. But the odds are that workers here will come through the downturn of 2009 with far fewer scrapes and bruises than they did during the two previous recessions.
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